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The Nature of God: Key Terms
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- 1OmniscienceKnowing everything.
- 2OmnipresenceBeing everywhere in the universe simultaneously.
- 3OmnipotenceHaving the power to do anything at all.
- 4OmnibenevolenceBeing unlimited in moral goodness.
- 5PanentheismThe belief that God interpenetrates every part of nature and extends infinitely beyond it
- 6PantheismThe belief that God and the universe are one and the same being, making God much more limited
- 7SempiternalExisting within time, but without beginning or end.
- 8Process theologyA theology which begins with the assumption that God is limited.
- 9The Euthyphro Dilemma“Is something good because God commands it, or does God command that thing because it is good?”
- 10BoethiusAuthor of The Consolations of Philosophy which takes the form of an imagined conversation between himself and Philosophy, personified as a woman.
- 11Lady PhilosophyThe personification of philosophy in Boethius’ book.
- 12St Augustine (354-430 CE)An eternalist who spotted a deep problem with eternalism.
- 13Anselm (1033-1109)An eternalist who proposed a ‘four dimensionalist’ view of Boethius’ theory of time.
- 14Anthony Kenny20th century philosopher who claims Boethius’ eternalism is incoherent.
- 15Pierre-Simon Laplace (1729-1847Held that the world was deterministic because Newtonian physics said the world was entirely explicable in terms of causes, effects and mathematics.
- 16Quantum MechanicsA rewriting of particle physics that built genuine indeterminacy into the world.
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- Key terms for "The Nature of Good" topic in OCR Religious Studies A Level
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